Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Family Easter

Easter is such a wild ride around here. I stress at timesover the meaning of Easter and trying to keep it Holy.I always have great intentions of bible reading andspecial activities. Then reality sets in. All the activitiesschedules run us so much that we miss all the importantthings. Although spending time with family is prettyimportant too. My brother was home from North Carolinaso we took much time with him. I am really goingto miss him although I may see his family againthis summer. My mom is still recovering from surgeryand had a terrible reaction to her medicine. I felt sobad for her that she could not visit with family properly.She spent most of the holiday resting.

As per tradition we all went to my dads party wherehe works for Easter. It has become tradition to get aphoto with Pap (oh and the Easter bunny) on this day.I think the kids enjoy spending the time with pap morethan they care about the activities. After we went toMom and Dads and had a pizza party since mom hasn'tbeen feeling to well. We also celebrated Paps birthday,had Christmas with my brother and Graduation . It'shard when family lives so far away. I had alwaysenvisioned us living close together . Like right nextdoor to each other and our kids growing up with oneanother just like we did. Its funny how life doesn't alwayswork out the way we had planned.

We split into age groups for the egg hunt. Sweet pealoved it and had plenty of hard boiled eggs in herbucket. Many of them cracked from her hard tosses.Spirit had a bucket full and Superboy had 4. This didnot surprise me since running isn't in his vocabulary.

The weather decided to be strange Easter week too.This day we had heavy winter coats on and a few days laterwe didn't need any. It is still being wacky. Yesterday I neededa jacket all day and today its supposed to hit the 80's.

Sweet pea loved her eggs so much that I couldn't pry themfrom her when she got in the car. She fell asleep with them onThe way to paps. The next day we went to my church egg hunt.Where I provided children with several crafts, a play area andcookie snack to make. It was a great turn out and childrenenjoyed the activities. They each went home with alarge bucket filled with chocolate. (we use plastic eggswith candy) Many of the crafts and activities were biblebased. It seemed to be an enjoying day.

Sunday we spend in reverence to God. Worshipping andhaving a family meal time. It was a nice quiet daythat I really needed and we got some of the meaning backinto the day.

*Please pray We are waiting to hear about workfor Carl. In particular a farm that looks promising. Itisn't a little farm but a major corporation.

We are also heading to Hearts college today to discussfinancial. Hoping all of my ducks are in a row.

Rejoice in the Lord Always.

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From everlasting to everlasting ,The Lords love is with those who fear him and his righteousness with their children's children....Then our sons in their youth will be like well - nurtured plants and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace....All the sons will be taught by the Lord and Great will be our childrens peace.....Psalms 103:17, 144:12 Isaiah 54:13